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Hanson: Concerto in 6 Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Rudolf Firkusny, piano; Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). One of Composer-Conductor Hanson's best works, imbued with good taste and good jazz. Performance and recording: good...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...Rochester boy, Mitch Miller took his time finding the right communication circuit. After the Eastman School of Music, he moved to Manhattan, landed a work-relief job as an oboist in a WPA orchestra. In 1935, he became a staff musician for CBS, played there for 13 years, touring at times with chamber music groups. He was a fine oboist, but playing to "blank faces" was discouraging ("No satisfaction, no feeling of communication...
...until after its fourth bankruptcy, in 1938, did the Erie begin to steam upgrade again, with Oldtime Railroadman Robert Eastman Woodruff,* 66, at the throttle. Woodruff, who had risen from section hand to president in 36 years with the Erie, bought new diesels for fast freight, streamlined the Erie's creaky business methods, cleared $21.8 million in 1941. The next year, Erie directors cheerfully announced that "icicles have sprouted in hell." They paid a 50? common dividend, their first in 69 years. Dividends have been declared every year since (1950's payment: $1.75 a share...
Adding his own postscript to the report, C.E.D. Chairman Marion B. Folsom, treasurer of Eastman Kodak Co., summed up the job for management: "Everyone [must] receive, and feel that he is receiving, a square deal...